125, 256, 260, 272).

Basedow was too far ahead of his own time, and even of ours, to exert much influence in this matter, and he had few immediate imitators.
Somewhat later than Basedow, a distinguished English physician, Thomas Beddoes, worked on somewhat the same lines, seeking to promote sexual knowledge by lectures and demonstrations.

In his remarkable book, _Hygeia_, published in 1802 (vol.i, Essay IV) he sets forth the absurdity of the conventional requirement that "discretion and ignorance should lodge in the same bosom," and deals at length with the question of masturbation and the need of sexual education.

He insists on the great importance of lectures on natural history which, he had found, could be given with perfect propriety to a mixed audience.

His experiences had shown that botany, the amphibia, the hen and her eggs, human anatomy, even disease and sometimes the sight of it, are salutary from this point of view.